"Trump told NBC News' Kristen Welker, "I won on groceries. Very simple word, groceries. Like almost - you know, who uses the word? I started using the word - the groceries ... I won an election based on that."


OK, cool, so prices are going to come down, right? At least not increase, right? Right?



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Nothing screams cuck like flying a flag with another man's name on it.

That interview didn't make trump look as good as he thinks it did.

He did sound a little calmer, but he is still a con man.
Evaded answers, spread more lies, and contradicted himself.

And then the weird stuff like how he talked about the word groceries. He made it sound like he invented the fking word, what a genius.

I guess he never goes to a grocery store.




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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC - KV

Trump Backtracks On Campaign Pledge To Bring Down Grocery Prices

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ARTHUR DELANEY
December 12, 2024 at 10:19 AM

President-elect Donald Trump admitted in an interview with Time magazine that it will be difficult for him to reduce consumer prices, contrary to statements he made on the campaign trail this year.

"It's hard to bring things down once they're up," Trump told Time in an hourlong interview for its "Person of the Year" feature. "You know, it's very hard."

Trump is right that it's very hard to achieve across-the-board price reductions. Curbing inflation is only a matter of slowing the rate of price increases - actual economy-wide price drops typically don't happen outside of a massive economic downturn.

Nevertheless, Trump repeatedly told voters during the campaign that electing him president would cause prices to tumble.

"Prices will come down," Trump said during a rally in August. "You just watch: They'll come down, and they'll come down fast, not only with insurance, with everything."

"We will end inflation and make America affordable again, and we're going to get the prices down, we have to get them down," Trump said at a rally in September. "It's too much. Groceries, cars, everything. We're going to get the prices down."

"We will cut your taxes and inflation, slash your prices, raise your wages and bring thousands of factories back to America," Trump said at a Georgia rally in October, reciting a line he used in speeches at several other events.

Trump also specifically promised to get gas prices down: "I will cut your energy prices in half within 12 months."

Vice President-elect JD Vance made similar promises that Trump would simply "fix" grocery prices.

"Kamala Harris broke the private-sector economy, and Donald J. Trump is going to fix it, and of course, whether it's housing prices, whether it's mortgage interest rates, whether it's grocery prices, everything has gotten more expensive under Kamala Harris' leadership," Vance said before the election at an event in November. "So again, we have to ask ourselves, do we want a president who broke the economy, broke the border, broke your wallets or do we want a president who has already fixed it and will fix it again."

In every survey leading up to the election, most voters said the economy and inflation were the most important issues, and most of those who said so also said they believed Trump would be better at addressing the problem. Concern over inflation may have been the biggest single explanation for Trump's victory.

Inflation soared above 9% in 2022 as a result of supply chain problems related to the coronavirus pandemic and strong consumer demand that had been buttressed by stimulus checks and other relief policies President Joe Biden championed.

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates to help bring down inflation, a process that many economists expected would increase unemployment by reducing demand for goods and services. Unemployment rose only modestly; cutting consumer demand enough to induce corporations to slash prices likely would also push them to lay off millions of workers.

But Trump never outlined a clear plan to reduce prices. His signature economic policy proposal during the campaign was to impose tariffs on imported goods, something economists said was more likely to spike prices since the companies that pay the tariffs can simply pass the cost on to consumers.

Trump's remarks to Time echoed similar backtracking he made on his promise that his proposed tariffs wouldn't boost prices.

"I can't guarantee anything. I can't guarantee tomorrow," he told NBC News' Kristen Welker on "Meet The Press" on Sunday.

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Dora Hates You

Concepts of a plan on a word I don't understand.

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Back The Blue!

"Kamala Harris broke the private-sector economy..."

He also doesn't understand the role of the Vice President...

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GOP:

Gaslight
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You don't either, it would seem. She cast the deciding vote as president of the senate on the spending bills that caused the inflation. Good thing we don't have a prog president. Progs are uniformly ignorant.

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I :heart; Q

Horseshit, 90% of the "inflation" was and is just a massive cash grab by big capital who are still mad they lost business during the pandemic.



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Nothing screams cuck like flying a flag with another man's name on it.

That hoax did not cause inflation. The only effect of that hoax, so far as I could tell, was that it made progs look more stupid.

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I :heart; Q

More wrongz from the NSR Nostradumbass.

The massive pandemic didn't cause inflation- it was "over" in 2020 and CCL's going to the moon!

Jesus, talk about a hoaxmeister..

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Back The Blue!

He just learned that word 'groceries'
He should go shopping with Tucker in Moscow.
Trust fund bitches

Almost as bad as him trying to pronounce "origins"

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GOP:

Gaslight
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HEY MAGATS

YALL WERE NEVER GETTING LOWER GROCERY PRICES, YOU STUPID FUCKING IMBECILES.

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So if you are a surfer I wish you the prosperity that allows you more time to pursue the salt water dream, and the true happiness that comes from warm water, clean waves and the companionship of your fellow surfers. If you are an internet troll just spewing bs then f off.

Life sucks then you get MAGA'd

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Dora Hates You

They were always going to get the only the concept of lower groceries.

But they don't mind paying more as long as daddy trump says it's because of...

A. BIDEN-Harris!
B. Immigrants!
C. Liberals!
D. Trans Women!
E. WOKE!
F. All of the above.



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Nothing screams cuck like flying a flag with another man's name on it.

Heh heh. This dude voted for a senile president who gave us substantially higher grocery prices. And he was prepared to vote for the senile president again. I think it is clear who the imbecile is in this picture.

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I :heart; Q

Yes, because in republicanland the president controls the price of eggs at Publix.

And if that's the case, just ask daddy trump nicely to make your eggs cheap again!

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Nothing screams cuck like flying a flag with another man's name on it.

PSA: some dork is giving away free eggs here

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Back The Blue!

What the fuck ever. Trump pumped that shit up $7trillion. Congress couldn't pass a decent spending bill if they tried. Now that you fucktards have the whole lot. We are screwed.

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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I noticed it always coincides with their own desires

Susan B. Anthony
1896

Impeach Trump

People said the stock markets would skyrocket if Trump was elected.
So far it has been a pretty meh market on average, and some sectors have gone down.

When is all this financial windfall from Trump's orange glow going to kick in?

BTW, I don't care about the price of eggs.




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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC - KV


Edited: 12/14/2024 at 07:21 AM by Bamboo